TikTok

Software Engineer, Ads Infra - Serving and Foundation

TikTok • $162K — $316K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
  • Experience with large-scale backend systems and data pipelines
  • Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and software design
  • Proficient coding and problem-solving skills
  • Curiosity about new technologies and entrepreneurship
  • Preferred: experience in the Ads domain
  • Preferred: experience building ads serving infrastructure

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate scalable and reliable ads serving infrastructure
  • Communicate across teams and stakeholders to drive engineering efforts
  • Lead innovation and bring new ideas and technologies to the team
  • Develop key advertising features and systems that support rapid iteration
  • Gather and process large volumes of data for decision-making

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match
  • Paid parental leave
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • Life insurance
  • Wellbeing benefits
  • 10 paid holidays and 10 paid sick days annually
  • 17 days of Paid Personal Time with increased accruals by tenure
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

The Ads Infra - Serving and Foundation Team builds advertising systems and integrations that power ads from creation to delivery and the data that influences decisions along the way. This system spans multiple data centers, supports rapid product iterations, and develops key advertising features. As part of our team, you will have excellent opportunities to build the end-to-end Ads system that encompasses the complete lifecycle, including massive data gathering and processing, highly concurrent, high-performance, and highly scalable advertising delivery architecture, etc. Responsibilities - Building and operating scalable and reliable ads serving infrastructure systems. - Communicate cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering efforts. - Lead innovation efforts, and bring in new ideas and technologies.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical disciplines. - Working experience and extensive knowledge of modern software tech stack, including large-scale backend systems, and data pipelines. - Strong Computer Science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, software design), coding skills and problem-solving skills. - Curiosity towards new technologies and entrepreneurship. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience in the Ads domain. - Experience with building large-scale ads serving infrastructure.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $162000 - $316800 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

About TikTok

TikTok is a social media app that allows users to create and share short videos. The app was launched in 2016 by Chinese tech company ByteDance. TikTok has become one of the most popular social media apps in the world, with over 1 billion active users. The app has been downloaded over 2 billion times worldwide. TikTok has faced controversy over its data privacy practices and its potential ties to the Chinese government. In 2020, the app faced a potential ban in the United States, but a deal was reached with Oracle and Walmart to create a new company called TikTok Global.
Learn more about TikTok
Size
1,750 employees
Industry
Founded
2012

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